The Rondout Social Maennerchor was formed on February 22, 1868, by a handful of German immigrants who loved choral singing. They were drawn together by their common language, and love for music, singing, and social activities so that their clubhouse, "Washington Hall", became a gathering place for similar organizations up and down the Hudson River.
t is unknown if this is the location of Mark Twain's lecture. A literature search has so far failed to uncover another theater at this date.
The Building and Site. The structure was erected in 1867 at a cost of $89,000. It seated 2,000 persons. It opened on December 17, 1867, with a temperance lecture. Later it was sold and remodeled; it reopened as the Lyceum Theatre in 1898. In 1904 it was lost in a cataclysmic fire that claimed one additional theater and six stores in downtown Elmira. The theater was rebuilt and opened, still as the Lyceum, in 1905. It closed in 1926 and was demolished in 1949.
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The original building on the site was Irving Hall, which opened in 1860 as a venue for balls, lectures, and concerts. It was also for many years the base for one faction of the city's Democratic Party.
Image: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The Cooper Institute -- 8th Street -- New York" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1853.
"The first Methodist Church in Keokuk was started in 1842 at 325 Exchange St. and was called the First Methodist Society. In 1869 they moved to 9th and Bank St., built a church and changed their name to First Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1869 – 1910 the German MC, Swedish MC and Chatham Square M.E. Church joined together to form Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church at the corner of 10th and Main St. in Keokuk, Ia. at that time there was 645 members."
"It is commonly recognized that Scott Chapel was first established in 1887, at Brittingham Hall, in the 400 block of Broadway, Hannibal."
Prior to settlement by Europeans or Americans, the area where the city now sits – at the forks of the Red River and Red Lake River – had been an important meeting and trading point for Native Americans. Early French explorers, fur trappers, and traders called the area Les Grandes Fourches meaning "The Grand Forks". By the 1740s, Les Grandes Fourches was an important trading post for French fur trappers. A U.S. post office was established on the site on June 15, 1870, and the name was changed to "Grand Forks".